It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.